O’Reilly’s “The Ruby Programming Language” Ebook for $9.99

I've just had word from David Flanagan - co-author of The Ruby Programming Language, published by O'Reilly - that O'Reilly are running a temporary sale on the e-book edition. The PDF e-book is now just.. $9.99 for a limited time only. That's a pretty good deal considering O'Reilly are selling the print book for $40 (though it's only $26.39 on Amazon).

Actually.. make that $5.99? Reader Mike Hodgson claims: If you use the LREL40 coupon code you can get an additional $4.00 off, bringing it down to $5.99 - Not tried it myself, but it's worth a go.

The Ruby Programming Language is the canonical Ruby book covering both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9. It's by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz!) so you know it's authoritative. When we reviewed it in 2008, we billed it "the new most important Ruby book."

David also mentions that there's a new iPhone edition available too for a mere $5. A great opportunity to get a great book on the cheap, whatever your budget.

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Comments

Martijn · August 26, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Cool, picked it up just now!
Ric Roberts · August 26, 2009 at 8:21 pm
David Flanagan's Definitive Javascript Guide is excellent, so I expect great things from this book. :)
Steve Pinkham · August 26, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Note the $9 O'Reilly version is more then PDF, it's PDF, .mobi(Amazon Kindle, IRex iLiad), and .epub(iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony,and pretty much every other ereader).
Mike Hodgson · August 27, 2009 at 1:55 am
If you use the LREL40 coupon code you can get an additional $4.00 off, bringing it down to $5.99 (thanks RetailMeNot!)
johan · August 27, 2009 at 7:34 am
Great, $5.99 later and the PDF is downloading as we speak :-)
Stephan · August 28, 2009 at 9:08 am
I already have the paper version - even signed from Matz - but <$10 ... that's a great offer I couldn't resist.
Charlie · August 29, 2009 at 3:07 am
Thanks a ton for bringing this to my attention!!
sabat · August 29, 2009 at 5:13 am
Confirmed, it's $5.99 with the coupon code LREL40.
sabat · August 29, 2009 at 5:19 am
What's poignant and sad is that the intro thanks _why for the drawings he did for the book, and then links to _why's own Poignant Guide -- a link that will no longer work. And this book just came out.
Peter · September 2, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Awesome, got the book for $5.99 with the coupon code!
Aaron · September 4, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Much thanks for the heads up!